Chad, Madagascar, South Africa, Africa, Namibia

Namibia CBEND Gasifier TENDER NOTICE
Desert Research Foundation, Namibia, November 14, 2008

TENDER NOTICE

Tenders are hereby invited from competent, experienced contractors for the supply, delivery and installation, commissioning, complete, of a biomass gasifier system and support ancillaries, internal combustion engine and generator set and supervisory, control and automation systems, in one lot, for the generation of at least 200kW to 300kW electrical power using manually harvested invader bush wood. The contractor will also be responsible for operational skills-transfer and at least one year, full after-sales service and maintenance under a warranty agreement.

Documents available at:

http://www.drfn.org.na/cbend; or from the DRFN Office at 7 Rossini Street, Windhoek, Namibia (during normal office hours); from 15 November 2009.

Tender closes:

15 January 2009 at 12:00 Namibian time (GMT+2:00)

Tender document cost:

No cost

Compulsory inspections / pre-tender meeting:

None

Employer:

CBEND Project (Combating Bush Encroachment for Namibia’s Development)
Tenders are to be completed in accordance to the conditions set out in the documents and must be sealed, endorsed “CBEND/2008/SC002: Supply, delivery and installation, complete, of a biomass gasifier system and support ancillaries, internal combustion engine and generator set”, addressed to CBEND c/o DRFN, No. 7 Rossini Street, Windhoek, Namibia and delivered no later than the date and time set out above.

CBEND does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender.
CBEND TENDER

Carbo Consult:Tar Free Wood Gas
Gero Eckerman November 13,2006

From Tom Reed:

I was a good friend and colleague of Gus and visited his house several times.

It is important to speak the same language. What is the tar content of your raw gas? Filtered Gas? Particulate content?

Carbo Consult & Engineering (Pty) Ltd, System Johansson Gas Producers, South Africa
Gero Eckermann, November 10, 2006

My partner Guenther Freudendahl and I are delighted about Paul Anderson's kind reference to Gus Johansson, our friend and mentor, who passed away at the age of nearly 84 on 09 March 2005.

Gus retired from his co-founder position of one of South Africa’s major civil engineering companies in 1984. To realize his dream of many decades and keep his gray matter active, he devoted all his time to invent a TAR FREE Gasifier, based on the 2nd world war Imbert down draft method. The result came swiftly: in the System Johansson, tar is cracked at ±1,500ºC --- a breakthrough of extraordinary proportions.